You can guarantee that all parties will commit to spending on pandemic preparedness following the next election. And then as the years go by, that budget will be chipped away at. (View Post)

Non-COVID deaths are running well below the five-year average, a fact that is conspicuously absent from that Guardian article. Perhaps the 28 day cut-off is missing some deaths, but isn’t many. (View Post)

Apologies if these points have already been made, but it should be remembered that this polling has been done at a time when none of these activities are legal. So it’s hardly surprising that there i… (View Post)

And Tory in 2015, not Tory in 2019 (* denotes Lib Dem seat, the rest are now Labour): Seat: majority 2015, deficit 2019 Richmond Park*: 38.9%, -11.9% Putney: 23.8%, -9.5% St Albans*: 23.4%, -10.9% Ca… (View Post)

Tory in 2010, not Tory in 2019 (* denotes Lib Dem seat, the rest are now Labour): Seat: majority 2010, deficit 2019 Putney: 24.6%, -9.5% Enfield, Southgate: 17.2%, -9.4% Reading East: 15.2%, -10.6% B… (View Post)